2022
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is Associated With Poor Overall Survival Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
Salahuddin S, Cohen O, Wu M, Irizarry J, Vega T, Gan G, Deng Y, Isaeva N, Prasad M, Schalper K, Mehra S, Yarbrough W, Emu B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is Associated With Poor Overall Survival Among Patients With Head and Neck Cancer. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 76: 1449-1458. PMID: 36520995, PMCID: PMC10319962, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac924.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOverall survivalIndependent predictorsHNSCC patientsWorse prognosisOropharyngeal tumorsCox proportional hazards regression modelMultivariate analysisHPV-positive oropharyngeal tumorsNeck squamous cell cancerProportional hazards regression modelsLower median overall survivalAcademic hospital centerNon-HIV populationMedian overall survivalPredictors of survivalSquamous cell cancerHuman immunodeficiency virusPoor clinical outcomeExpression of CD4Poor overall survivalHazards regression modelsRace/ethnicityCD8 infiltrationHazard ratioClinicopathologic characteristics
2017
B7-H3 Expression in NSCLC and Its Association with B7-H4, PD-L1 and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes
Altan M, Pelekanou V, Schalper KA, Toki M, Gaule P, Syrigos K, Herbst RS, Rimm DL. B7-H3 Expression in NSCLC and Its Association with B7-H4, PD-L1 and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes. Clinical Cancer Research 2017, 23: 5202-5209. PMID: 28539467, PMCID: PMC5581684, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-16-3107.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdultAgedB7 AntigensB7-H1 AntigenBiomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCell Line, TumorDisease-Free SurvivalFemaleGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansImmunohistochemistryLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleMiddle AgedPrognosisV-Set Domain-Containing T-Cell Activation Inhibitor 1ConceptsNon-small cell lung cancerTumor-infiltrating lymphocytesB7-H3 proteinB7-H4PD-L1B7-H3Majority of NSCLCQuantitative immunofluorescenceImmune checkpoints PD-1Major clinicopathologic variablesLevels of CD3Negative prognostic impactCell lung cancerPoor overall survivalSuccessful therapeutic targetsB7 family membersClin Cancer ResB7-H1NSCLC cohortOverall survivalPrognostic impactSmoking historyClinicopathologic characteristicsPD-1Clinical stage